My mom didn't "get"The Expendables. Can't really say I'm surprised. Going to show herInceptionnext, hopefully she'll at least finish that movie.
Never actually saw The Expendables, but from what I understand there isn't really much to get, is there? Isn't it just a bunch of action film actors doing action film things?
Exactly. I specifically told her that it is a stupid action movie in which the story is completely pointless and it only exists to see big name action stars blow shit up together. She did not listen to me.
Watching a lot of Rifftrax lately. Most of them comic book adaptations with varying degrees of quality. Watched Spider-Man 2 and Fantastic 4 yesterday, and Oceans 11 today. I'll probably watch 300. What's with all those numbers? Anyways, Rifftrax are hilarious and should be watched by anyone at least once. I'm particular fond of the one for Jurrasic Park featuring Weird Al Yankovic, and the one for The Day After Tomorrow.
However, I also watched one very good movie today. Actually, it's not very good. It's fucking fantastic. I watched Shawshank Redemption for the very first time. Why in the name of almighty Cthulhu did I not watch that movie sooner?
The sound track needs to go however. Alan Parsons' pumped synth fueled madness into an orchestra and created a soundtrack that probably sounded cutting edge at the time. Today, however, it is as jarring as listening to rock music in Knights Tale. It completely pulls me out of the movie and reminds me that this movie set in medieval times was made in the 80's.
I still Rutger Hauer; cheesy at times and yet I can see brilliance there.
Watching Spider-Man 3 with Rifftrax. Even with hilarious commentary, the scenes in which emo Parker gets his "dance" on are still utterly fucking retarded. Brain meltingly so. Uggghhhhh.
Watching Spider-Man 3 with Rifftrax. Even with hilarious commentary, the scenes in which emo Parker gets his "dance" on are still utterly fucking retarded. Brain meltingly so. Uggghhhhh.
My little brother asked for Spider-Man 3 for Christmas, and I found myself in a moral dilemma: Buy him something bad that he wants, or buy him something good that he doesn't want.
That must be what it feels like to be in Congress.
Watching Spider-Man 3 with Rifftrax. Even with hilarious commentary, the scenes in which emo Parker gets his "dance" on are still utterly fucking retarded. Brain meltingly so. Uggghhhhh.
My little brother asked for Spider-Man 3 for Christmas, and I found myself in a moral dilemma: Buy him something bad that he wants, or buy him something good that he doesn't want.
That must be what it feels like to be in Congress.
Congress is in a slightly different situation where they can't get anything at all because they spent all the moneys already.
Just watched A Scanner Darkly. Half the time I had no clue what was going on, e.g. "why the fuck are these guys standing on the side of the high way with a wrecked car?" And no, I did not take any illegal substances while watching that movie. It's just a weird one. Thankfully, the Wikipedia page helped me figuring things out after the fact. I guess I'll listen to The Greatest Movie Ever episode for it now.
BTW, Spider-man 3 could have been a decent movie. For it to be a decent movie, they should have left Sandman entirely out of the plot, just as all the emo-garbage and especially the scenes of Toby McGuire dancing and walking down the street making a total ass out of himself. Though, I still have a hard time figuring out which was worse: The "dances" or the idiotic retcon making Flint Marko Uncle Ben's killer...
Though, I still have a hard time figuring out which was worse: The "dances" or the idiotic retcon making Flint Marko Uncle Ben's killer...
The retcon. Definitely. The weird dancing and emo behavior I can excuse as the influence of the symbiote, but I can't stand a retcon that is shoehorned in just for the sake of introducing a character.
No, that wasn't done to introduce a character. It was made to give the character relevance, and one can deduce the quality of that character from how terrible they had to shoehorn relevance for him into the story. He simply didn't have any and all relevance that was given him was artificially injected, and his backstory was never resolved. What happened with his dying kid and his ex-wife? Never told.
Sorry, I guess I should have been a bit more precise with my verbiage. I was referring more to the introduction of the character to the series and bringing in their backstory than just "here's a new character, herp de derp." The other thing that bugged the hell out of me was the whole "the symbiote was a glob of goo that came out of a meteorite that just happened to land next to Parker's scooter". I mean, I realize they couldn't do the whole Secret Wars thing (nor should they) but the least they could have done is figure out a different way to introduce the symbiote. Shit, it would have made more sense to introduce John Jameson as a character and have him bring back the rock from his mission to the moon. Parker covers the story, the symbiote hitches a ride home with him, and then proceeds to try and take over.
Indeed, and they had already introduced John Jameson in the previous fucking movie! There is so much potential completely flushed down the toilet to be replaced with shit. I also listened to the episode of The Greatest Movie Ever and another fine point by them was that they should or at least could have made a Lizard movie instead. A movie ruined by too many villains being used up at once. They best would have done a 90 minute movie wrapping up the trilogy with Harry Osbourne and done it well. Then I could have perhaps also seen another sequel with Venom, the Lizard or even Sandman if the character was done well.
I also recently watched the 1989 Batman, which was a decent movie and far superior to the Trainwreck that is Spider-Man 3, but it also has that shoehorned semi-retcon of Jack Napier/The Joker being the murderer of Bruce Wayne's parents. I have to use the "semi-" though, because the murder and responsible party weren't established two movies earlier. Doesn't excuse the shoehorning though.
It continues on. The gigantic plothole with Harry's Butler, Eddie Brock (Why Topher Grace?) and Gwen Stacy being completely pointless additions, The creation of Sandman, That car during the final part which got more and more ludicrous with how it broke apart...
They best would have done a 90 minute movie wrapping up the trilogy with Harry Osbourne and done it well.
Agreed. Harry could have become the Hobgoblin (not the weak-ass Nu-Goblin), they could have tied that story up, and then continued on with other villains. Hell, if they had to they could have even shoehorned the Death of Gwen Stacy into the picture instead of the direction they took it. I have to wonder how much of the decision to include more bad guys was made by the execs at Marvel just seeing a chance to tie in more toys.
Eddie Brock (Why Topher Grace?)
Totally. Eddie Brock is supposed to look like Howie Long or something, not like Topher flippin' Grace with a bad dye job.
I've had another good idea what a better Spider-man 3 could have looked like: Scorpion. You have Jameson hiring Mac Cargan to spy after Parker and later turn him into the Scorpion, perhaps with the help of Oscorp. Scorpion ultimately fails, though in hard combat, and is presumed dead or at least gets rejected by Jameson. Scorpion goes bonkers and after Jameson and Spidey has to rescue Jameson, the guy who wants to make him infamous. Would have been great showcasing J.K. Simmons spot-on portrayal of JJJ and I think it would have done better to focus on another aspect of Parker coping with his secret identity than the love-polyeder.
The Proposition. Any movie written by Nick Cave is going to be pretty somber, but God Damn.
I still had one question at the end of the movie: Where the hell did they get all those fucking flies??? Their must have been 50 thousand of those little bastards!!!
Would have made a superior Peter Parker.Douchey McPleasantville never sat right with me in the role. He's less nerdy and more just... awkward. And not nearly snarky enough.
The Making of Mortal Kombat VHS. I just can't believe anybody ever thought it was a good idea. It opens with a 2.5D? (really bad 2D characters on top of state of the art computer generated 3D) animation that's kind of about the story. The people animating it only have a vague understanding of how it's meant to be done. Characters rarely ever stay on model, they teleport all over the place within a scene, just general badness.
I'm watching Superman/Batman: Apocalypse. Remember back in the 90s how that one Doomsday killed Superman? Well, Supes just killed about 1,000 Doomsdays. Things sure have changed.
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However, I also watched one very good movie today. Actually, it's not very good. It's fucking fantastic. I watched Shawshank Redemption for the very first time. Why in the name of almighty Cthulhu did I not watch that movie sooner?
The sound track needs to go however. Alan Parsons' pumped synth fueled madness into an orchestra and created a soundtrack that probably sounded cutting edge at the time. Today, however, it is as jarring as listening to rock music in Knights Tale. It completely pulls me out of the movie and reminds me that this movie set in medieval times was made in the 80's.
I still
That must be what it feels like to be in Congress.
I also recently watched the 1989 Batman, which was a decent movie and far superior to the Trainwreck that is Spider-Man 3, but it also has that shoehorned semi-retcon of Jack Napier/The Joker being the murderer of Bruce Wayne's parents. I have to use the "semi-" though, because the murder and responsible party weren't established two movies earlier. Doesn't excuse the shoehorning though.
I still had one question at the end of the movie: Where the hell did they get all those fucking flies??? Their must have been 50 thousand of those little bastards!!!